North Africa(UN: Northern Africa)
Egypt
Arab Republic of Egypt
The Nile valley state whose dynastic civilisation ran for three thousand years, and which remains one of the political and cultural centres of both Africa and the Arab world.
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Egypt in pictures
Flag, landscapes, landmarks and wildlife you can meet in the games. Photographs come from each subject’s Wikipedia article.
Flag
Flag of Egypt
National flag
- Giza pyramid complex
Landscape
Giza pyramid complex
A real place in Egypt
- Pyramids of Giza
Landmark
Pyramids of Giza
Built about 4,500 years ago as royal tombs, and still standing on the edge of Cairo.
- The Great Sphinx
Landmark
The Great Sphinx
A lion's body with a human head, carved from one huge block of limestone.
- Abu Simbel temples
Landmark
Abu Simbel temples
Ramesses II's rock temples were cut up and moved uphill to escape a rising lake.
- Karnak Temple
Landmark
Karnak Temple
A hall of 134 giant stone columns, built and rebuilt over 2,000 years.
- Siwa Oasis
Landmark
Siwa Oasis
A green island of date palms with its own Berber language, Siwi.
- Dorcas gazelle
Wildlife
Dorcas gazelle
It gets nearly all its water from the plants it eats.
- Nile monitor
Wildlife
Nile monitor
A two-metre lizard that swims well and raids crocodile nests.
- Cairo
City
Cairo
Capital of Egypt
Capital
Cairo
Population
118,365,995
World Bank, 2025
Area
1,002,450 km²
Currency
Egyptian pound
GDP per person
$3,086
Current US$, 2025
Life expectancy
71.8 yrs
World Bank, 2024
Urban population
42.9%
UN member
Yes
Quick facts
Did you know?
Egypt was ruled by Kushite kings from Sudan for nearly a century.
About 95% of Egyptians live on roughly 5% of the land, along the Nile.
Your route
Where to start with Egypt
Every chapter above begins with the essentials and then lets you keep going deeper — four levels of depth, or your own question, researched from this country's reference data and our sourced library.
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Reference figures come from the World Bank Open Data API and the ISO 3166 country dataset, each shown with its year. Historical and cultural text is written by our editors and marks contested dating where scholars disagree. The "go deeper" chapters are generated live by Africa AI from that same reference data and our sourced library — check them before quoting. Borders shown are for orientation and do not imply a position on any dispute.